The boy in the black suit
About this book
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Subjects
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african american teenagers
- bereavement
- brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction
- children's fiction
- death & dying
- emotions & feelings
- families
- family
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- friendship
- funeral homes
- funeral rites and ceremonies
- grief
- grief, fiction
- grief in adolescence
- juvenile fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- social themes